iOS developers who want to code in C#, for example, can now use Xamarin’s iOS Simulator right from Visual Studio on Windows (though the simulator itself still has to run on a networked Mac and Visual Studio essentially creates a remote connection to it). Unsurprisingly, a lot of the new functionality the company announced today is coupled to Microsoft’s tools, especially Visual Studio. Friedman argues that the company wants to focus its open-source efforts on the “runtime side of things” and he doesn’t expect that an open-source IDE would get all that many contributions. The Xamarin IDE (for Mac), though, will remain closed-source for now. These SDKs include the command-line tools for building applications, as well as Xamarin’s cross-platform Xamarin.Forms UI framework.
Xamarin is open-sourcing its SDKs for Android, iOS and Mac under the MIT license, for example. Some of Xamarin’s launches today were previously announced at Microsoft’s Build conference. Friedman says downloads were up three and a half times in the last two weeks since the company announced its new pricing plan compared to the full month before the announcement.
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Indeed, as Xamarin’s former CEO and co-founder (and now Microsoft employee) Nat Friedman told me, the service has seen its downloads increase massively since the acquisition - and it surely doesn’t hurt that Xamarin is now available for free in a Community edition. No developer conference would be complete without a large number of announcements and Xamarin - almost as if to show that the Microsoft acquisition hasn’t stalled its momentum - is launching updates to almost all of the core features of its platform today. Xamarin, the cross-platform development platform Microsoft recently acquired, is holding its annual developer conference today.
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